Good Local Economics

For young people, collaboration is worth the risk

Delivering public services is a risky business, full of what Donald Rumsfeld famously – and rather presciently – called ‘unknown unknowns’. As the nature of social risk has changed, so have our means of addressing them. Yet they have not changed fast enough. Young people risk falling through the gaps of a fragmented and cash-strapped welfare system without new ways of working across traditional divides to support citizens in meaningful ways.

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An experiment in low-income housing in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco

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Connecting private investors with social enterprises transforming their communities

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Social recession needs action right now

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What the Jarrow march can teach us about social innovation

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For truly shocking reality TV, tune into the Parliament channel

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Bank lending data by postcode – what does it tell us?

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Support for those who need it most? Not if the local welfare provision grant is abolished

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Innovation in financial services must benefit everyone

Jennifer Tankard kicks off a series of articles from members of the Community Investment Coalition explaining why it’s time for a revolution in community finance

We are seeing a revolution in the way that people use financial services. For years people have relied on a combination of cash, cheques and directs debits to manage their money, using one bank to manage current, savings and mortgage accounts and increasingly, because of bundling, taking out insurance with the same firm.